<div style="margin-left:0%; margin-right:0%">
<div class="title">
THE GENERAL EPISTLE OF<br/>
<span class=large>JAMES</span>
</div>
<div class="subtitle">
CHAPTER 1
</div>
<div class="summary">
If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God—Resist temptation—Be ye doers of the word—How to recognize pure religion.
</div>
<div class="verse"><a name="1"></a>
<div id="james/1/1" onclick='return toggleMarked(event, this)'>
&nbsp;&nbsp;1 <span class='allcaps'>
James,</span> a <sup>a</sup><a href="james/1/1a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Servants.">servant</a> of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are <sup>b</sup><a href="james/1/1b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Israel, Twelve Tribes of.">scattered</a> abroad, greeting.
</div>
</div>
<div class="verse"><a name="2"></a>
<div id="james/1/2" onclick='return toggleMarked(event, this)'>
&nbsp;&nbsp;2 
My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into <sup>a</sup><a href="james/1/2a" mark="a" type="H" title="JST James 1: 2  . . .  many afflictions.">divers</a> <sup>b</sup><a href="james/1/2b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Temptation.">temptations</a>;
</div>
</div>
<div class="verse"><a name="3"></a>
<div id="james/1/3" onclick='return toggleMarked(event, this)'>
&nbsp;&nbsp;3 
Knowing <i>this,</i> that the <sup>a</sup><a href="james/1/3a" mark="a" type="R" title="GR approval by trial; TG Opposition; TG Test, Try, Prove.">trying</a> of your faith worketh <sup>b</sup><a href="james/1/3b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Patience.">patience</a>.
</div>
</div>
<div class="verse"><a name="4"></a>
<div id="james/1/4" onclick='return toggleMarked(event, this)'>
&nbsp;&nbsp;4 
But let patience have <i>her</i> perfect work, that ye may be <sup>a</sup><a href="james/1/4a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Perfection.">perfect</a> and entire, wanting nothing.
</div>
</div>
<div class="verse"><a name="5"></a>
<div id="james/1/5" onclick='return toggleMarked(event, this)'>
&nbsp;&nbsp;5 
<sup>a</sup><a href="james/1/5a" mark="a" type="A" title="D&C 42: 68; JS-H 1: 11.">If</a> any of you lack <sup>b</sup><a href="james/1/5b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Guidance, Divine; TG Learning; TG Wisdom.">wisdom</a>, let him ask of God, that <sup>c</sup><a href="james/1/5c" mark="c" type="B" title="TG Benevolence; TG Revelation.">giveth</a> to all <i>men</i> liberally, and <sup>d</sup><a href="james/1/5d" mark="d" type="P" title="GR reproaches, censures.">upbraideth</a> not; and it shall be given him.
</div>
</div>
<div class="verse"><a name="6"></a>
<div id="james/1/6" onclick='return toggleMarked(event, this)'>
&nbsp;&nbsp;6 
But let him <sup>a</sup><a href="james/1/6a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Prayer.">ask</a> in <sup>b</sup><a href="james/1/6b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Faith.">faith</a>, nothing <sup>c</sup><a href="james/1/6c" mark="c" type="R" title="GR doubting, hesitating; TG Doubt.">wavering</a>.  For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed.
</div>
</div>
<div class="verse"><a name="7"></a>
<div id="james/1/7" onclick='return toggleMarked(event, this)'>
&nbsp;&nbsp;7 
For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord.
</div>
</div>
<div class="verse"><a name="8"></a>
<div id="james/1/8" onclick='return toggleMarked(event, this)'>
&nbsp;&nbsp;8 
A <sup>a</sup><a href="james/1/8a" mark="a" type="C" title="1 Kgs. 18: 21; Ps. 12: 2; Hosea 10: 2; TG Integrity.">double</a> minded man <i>is</i> unstable in all his ways.
</div>
</div>
<div class="verse"><a name="9"></a>
<div id="james/1/9" onclick='return toggleMarked(event, this)'>
&nbsp;&nbsp;9 
Let the brother of <sup>a</sup><a href="james/1/9a" mark="a" type="A" title="Matt. 23: 12.">low</a> degree rejoice in that he is exalted:
</div>
</div>
<div class="verse"><a name="10"></a>
<div id="james/1/10" onclick='return toggleMarked(event, this)'>
&nbsp;&nbsp;10 
But the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the <sup>a</sup><a href="james/1/10a" mark="a" type="A" title="Isa. 40: 6-8.">grass</a> he shall pass away.
</div>
</div>
<div class="verse"><a name="11"></a>
<div id="james/1/11" onclick='return toggleMarked(event, this)'>
&nbsp;&nbsp;11 
For the sun is no sooner risen with a burning heat, but it withereth the grass, and the flower thereof falleth, and the <sup>a</sup><a href="james/1/11a" mark="a" type="P" title="GR beauty of its appearance.">grace</a> of the fashion of it perisheth: so also shall the <sup>b</sup><a href="james/1/11b" mark="b" type="A" title="1 Tim. 6: 17 (17-19).">rich</a> man fade away in his ways.
</div>
</div>
<div class="verse"><a name="12"></a>
<div id="james/1/12" onclick='return toggleMarked(event, this)'>
&nbsp;&nbsp;12 
<sup>a</sup><a href="james/1/12a" mark="a" type="C" title="1 Pet. 3: 14; TG Blessings.">Blessed</a> <i>is</i> the man that <sup>b</sup><a href="james/1/12b" mark="b" type="J" title="JST James 1: 12  . . .  resisteth temptation  . . .; TG Steadfastness.">endureth</a> temptation: for when he is <sup>c</sup><a href="james/1/12c" mark="c" type="B" title="TG Test, Try, Prove.">tried</a>, he shall receive the <sup>d</sup><a href="james/1/12d" mark="d" type="B" title="TG Exaltation; TG Reward.">crown</a> of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him.
</div>
</div>
<div class="verse"><a name="13"></a>
<div id="james/1/13" onclick='return toggleMarked(event, this)'>
&nbsp;&nbsp;13 
Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be <sup>a</sup><a href="james/1/13a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG God, Perfection of.">tempted</a> with <sup>b</sup><a href="james/1/13b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Evil.">evil</a>, neither tempteth he any man:
</div>
</div>
<div class="verse"><a name="14"></a>
<div id="james/1/14" onclick='return toggleMarked(event, this)'>
&nbsp;&nbsp;14 
But every man is <sup>a</sup><a href="james/1/14a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Temptation.">tempted</a>, when he is drawn away of his own <sup>b</sup><a href="james/1/14b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Chastity; TG Lust; TG Motivations; TG Sensuality.">lust</a>, and enticed.
</div>
</div>
<div class="verse"><a name="15"></a>
<div id="james/1/15" onclick='return toggleMarked(event, this)'>
&nbsp;&nbsp;15 
Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth <sup>a</sup><a href="james/1/15a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Sin.">sin</a>: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.
</div>
</div>
<div class="verse"><a name="16"></a>
<div id="james/1/16" onclick='return toggleMarked(event, this)'>
&nbsp;&nbsp;16 
Do not err, my beloved brethren.
</div>
</div>
<div class="verse"><a name="17"></a>
<div id="james/1/17" onclick='return toggleMarked(event, this)'>
&nbsp;&nbsp;17 
Every <sup>a</sup><a href="james/1/17a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ps. 85: 12.">good</a> <sup>b</sup><a href="james/1/17b" mark="b" type="A" title="Moro. 7: 12 (12-13).">gift</a> and every perfect <sup>c</sup><a href="james/1/17c" mark="c" type="C" title="John 3: 27; 2 Cor. 9: 15; TG God, Gifts of.">gift</a> is from above, and <sup>d</sup><a href="james/1/17d" mark="d" type="A" title="D&C 67: 9.">cometh</a> down from the Father of <sup>e</sup><a href="james/1/17e" mark="e" type="A" title="Dan. 2: 22.">lights</a>, with whom is no <sup>f</sup><a href="james/1/17f" mark="f" type="B" title="TG God, Perfection of.">variableness</a>, neither shadow of turning.
</div>
</div>
<div class="verse"><a name="18"></a>
<div id="james/1/18" onclick='return toggleMarked(event, this)'>
&nbsp;&nbsp;18 
Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.
</div>
</div>
<div class="verse"><a name="19"></a>
<div id="james/1/19" onclick='return toggleMarked(event, this)'>
&nbsp;&nbsp;19 
Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to <sup>a</sup><a href="james/1/19a" mark="a" type="A" title="Prov. 17: 27.">speak</a>, <sup>b</sup><a href="james/1/19b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Patience.">slow</a> to <sup>c</sup><a href="james/1/19c" mark="c" type="B" title="TG Anger.">wrath</a>:
</div>
</div>
<div class="verse"><a name="20"></a>
<div id="james/1/20" onclick='return toggleMarked(event, this)'>
&nbsp;&nbsp;20 
For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God.
</div>
</div>
<div class="verse"><a name="21"></a>
<div id="james/1/21" onclick='return toggleMarked(event, this)'>
&nbsp;&nbsp;21 
Wherefore lay apart all <sup>a</sup><a href="james/1/21a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Filthiness.">filthiness</a> and <sup>b</sup><a href="james/1/21b" mark="b" type="P" title="GR overabundance of malice, trouble, evil.">superfluity</a> of naughtiness, and receive with <sup>c</sup><a href="james/1/21c" mark="c" type="B" title="TG Meekness.">meekness</a> the <sup>d</sup><a href="james/1/21d" mark="d" type="P" title="GR implanted, ingrafted.">engrafted</a> word, which is able to save your souls.
</div>
</div>
<div class="verse"><a name="22"></a>
<div id="james/1/22" onclick='return toggleMarked(event, this)'>
&nbsp;&nbsp;22 
But be ye <sup>a</sup><a href="james/1/22a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Commitment; TG Duty; TG Good Works; TG Hypocrisy.">doers</a> of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.
</div>
</div>
<div class="verse"><a name="23"></a>
<div id="james/1/23" onclick='return toggleMarked(event, this)'>
&nbsp;&nbsp;23 
For if any be a <sup>a</sup><a href="james/1/23a" mark="a" type="A" title="Luke 6: 49 (47-49).">hearer</a> of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a <sup>b</sup><a href="james/1/23b" mark="b" type="A" title="1 Cor. 13: 12.">glass</a>:
</div>
</div>
<div class="verse"><a name="24"></a>
<div id="james/1/24" onclick='return toggleMarked(event, this)'>
&nbsp;&nbsp;24 
For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was.
</div>
</div>
<div class="verse"><a name="25"></a>
<div id="james/1/25" onclick='return toggleMarked(event, this)'>
&nbsp;&nbsp;25 
But whoso looketh into the perfect <sup>a</sup><a href="james/1/25a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG God, Law of.">law</a> of <sup>b</sup><a href="james/1/25b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Liberty.">liberty</a>, and continueth <i>therein,</i> he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.
</div>
</div>
<div class="verse"><a name="26"></a>
<div id="james/1/26" onclick='return toggleMarked(event, this)'>
&nbsp;&nbsp;26 
If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his <sup>a</sup><a href="james/1/26a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Gossip; TG Profanity.">tongue</a>, but deceiveth his own heart, this man’s religion <i>is</i> <sup>b</sup><a href="james/1/26b" mark="b" type="P" title="GR useless, deceptive, erroneous.">vain</a>.
</div>
</div>
<div class="verse"><a name="27"></a>
<div id="james/1/27" onclick='return toggleMarked(event, this)'>
&nbsp;&nbsp;27 
Pure <sup>a</sup><a href="james/1/27a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Charity.">religion</a> and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To <sup>b</sup><a href="james/1/27b" mark="b" type="C" title="D&C 44: 6; TG Benevolence; TG Good Works; TG Welfare.">visit</a> the <sup>c</sup><a href="james/1/27c" mark="c" type="A" title="Deut. 26: 13; Job 22: 9; Job 31: 21 (21-22); Ps. 10: 14; Ps. 146: 9 (1-10); 3 Ne. 24: 5; D&C 136: 8 (7-9).">fatherless</a> and <sup>d</sup><a href="james/1/27d" mark="d" type="B" title="TG Widows.">widows</a> in their <sup>e</sup><a href="james/1/27e" mark="e" type="B" title="TG Affliction.">affliction</a>, <i>and</i> to keep himself <sup>f</sup><a href="james/1/27f" mark="f" type="C" title="1 Tim. 5: 22; 1 Jn. 5: 18; D&C 59: 9; TG Chastity.">unspotted</a> from <sup>g</sup><a href="james/1/27g" mark="g" type="H" title="JST James 1: 27  . . .  the vices of the world.">the</a> <sup>h</sup><a href="james/1/27h" mark="h" type="B" title="TG Worldliness.">world</a>.
</div>
</div>
